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Lot 54

Charles Burchfield
(1893-1967)
Untitled (House by the Hills) 18 x 23 7/8in

19 November 2018, 16:00 EST
New York

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Charles Burchfield (1893-1967)

Untitled (House by the Hills)
dated 'Nov 16, 1919' (on the reverse)
gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper
18 x 23 7/8in
Executed in 1919.

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, New York.
By descent to the present owner, 1999.

Accompanying this work is a research report completed by Nancy Weekly of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York. We wish to thank her for her assistance cataloguing this lot.

The present work depicts a site in Negley, Ohio, a small town in northeastern Ohio, southeast of Salem. According to Nancy Weekly, Burchfield made several trips to Negley and in the artist's journals on November 16th, 1919, he wrote:

"Down the windy frost whitened valley toward Negley, I smelled sweet grass --
At nightfall, the yellow window houses crouched silently under the black hills--" (C.E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 32, p. 72)

The false front building seen in the present work was architecture that fascinated Burchfield and appear in works dating from 1919 through the early 1920s, including a similar composition, a watercolor entitled Hot Summer Afternoon, from 1919, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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